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Subject: Re: Quotation Ugliness
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 10:16:20 -0500
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On Wed, Nov 26, 2014, at 10:02, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
>    someprog.py "uname && sudo cat /etc/sudoers"
> 
>   vs.
> 
>    someprog.py 'uname && echo "sudo cat /etc/suoders"'

I think it would be better to provide a general way for the user to
provide an input script as an option, rather than to specifically detect
the use of sudo. What if the command is a shell script that calls sudo
within the script?